Earth
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- Episode
- Episode 2 - Snowball
- Broadcast Info
- 2023 (59 mins)
- Description
- How Earth’s terrifying journey into the deep freeze started with fire, not ice. 800 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, indeed any animal life, the giant supercontinent Rodinia broke up. Earth’s vast powerful tectonic forces ripped the land apart, kicking off a series of events that resulted in huge amounts of carbon dioxide being sucked from the atmosphere and sending global temperatures plummeting.
- Genre
- Geology; Natural History; Climate; Earth Sciences; Volcanology
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Earth". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/245879 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)